Thread: Check out this Pig

Hi,

This story ran on our news service last night. It sure is big.............

Cheers
John

Originally Posted by johnmw1

Hi,

This story ran on our news service last night. It sure is big.............

Cheers
John

They grow things pretty big in australia heh?

Sorry I should have run the story with it, as it is a local story for you guys..........

An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed 476 kilograms and measured 2.74 metres, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.

Think hams as big as car tyres.

If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stone's trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004.

Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 453.6 kilograms and measure 3.6 metres long. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 362.8 kilograms and was 2.4 metres long.

Regardless of the comparison, Jamison is revelling in the attention over his pig.

"It feels really good," Jamison said. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."

Jamison, who killed his first deer at age five, was hunting with father Mike Stone and two guides in east Alabama on May 3. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-calibre revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot.

Through it all, there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge them, as wild boars have a reputation for doing.

"I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison.

His father said that, just to be extra safe, he and the guides had high-powered rifles aimed and ready to fire in case the beast, with 12-centimetre tusks, decided to charge.

Trees had to be cut down and a backhoe brought in to bring Jamison's prize out of the woods.

It was hauled on a truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange, where Jeff Kinder said they used his scale, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog.

Mike Stone said the scale balanced one notch past the 476 kilogram mark.

"It probably weighed 1060 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once the story was out," he said.

The hog's head is being mounted by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy. Cunningham said the animal measured 137.16 centimetres around the head, 187.9 centimetres around the shoulders and 27.9 centimetres from the eyes to the end of its snout.

"It's huge," he said. "It's just the biggest thing I've ever seen."

Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds (317.5 kilograms)," he said.

Jamison, meanwhile, has been offered a small part in The Legend of Hogzilla, a small-time horror flick based on the tale of the Georgia boar. The movie is holding casting calls with plans to begin filming in Georgia.

That's a lot of sausage.

-whatever

-Lou

Ya'know....I've got NOTHING against hunting....heck, I live in north Idaho and everything pretty much shuts down for 2 ro 3 weeks in the fall during elk season -we got deer, bear, turkeys and all sorts of birds and waterfowl....I like hunting and hunters. Hell, one of my best friends is an enforcement officer for the Fish and Game.

So, I re-read that article, and see that an 11-year old boy shot super-pig here 8 times over 3 hours with a pistol (a big-ass pistol, mind you.....50 caliber...never seen one of THOSE) while the adults with the high-powered rifles watched to make sure super-pig didn't get pissed off and turn on dead-eyed Hop-a-long Cassidy...so this pig suffers for 3-hours so junior can say he killed it with a pistol....that gives me a little heartburn....


...call me an old softie....

...G-dub....care to pipe in here?

-whatever

-Lou

Lou, most responsible hunters want to take out an animule efficiently and quickly --- correct placement of shot with the correct equipment and down she goes.

There's something fishy about this story ----hard for me to believe. Is this suppose to be a hog that went feral? For now I say it's not true.

Justin

Justin,

There appears to be a web site dedicated to this now, seems like they are a cashing in while they can.

http://www.monsterpig.com/

Cheers
John

PS should read the negative emails page this young dude is really getting a good telling off.
http://www.monsterpig.com/negative_comments.htm

There's definitely something fishy about this story. My sources tell me that it's actually a drop bear in a pig-suit. The govt. didn't want to start an Australia wide panic, so they disguised the drop-bear and got ASIO agents to pose as hunters.

I'm looking further into this - if you don't hear back from me in 24 hours, tell my wife I love her. Lou, you can have my Friodur. Justin, the Bergischer Lowe.

James.

Originally Posted by johnmw1

PS should read the negative emails page this young dude is really getting a good telling off.
http://www.monsterpig.com/negative_comments.htm

Yeh -- well the people writing the negative emails are as full of crap and lunny as the story possibly is.

James --thanks for the razor---- if things don't go well I shall call it my lil' Jimbo.

Jusitn

...and I shall call mine 'Mon Cherie'...

-whatever

-Lou